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Fraud and Abuse Still Focus for Providers After Supreme Court Ruling

Bloomberg BNAJuly 2, 2012

In Depth

Ankur Goel cited problems for healthcare providers from a proposed government rule that requires reporting and returning Medicare overpayments within 60 days of identification, saying that the proposal, “if finalized, would consider a provider to have identified an overpayment not only if it has actual knowledge of the overpayment, but also if acts in reckless disregard or deliberate ignorance.” He added that failure to return an overpayment could trigger a Fair Claims Act violation.